42 Irresistibly Easy Halloween Crafts For Kids And Toddlers

These wicked-fun Halloween craft ideas will make boredom (poof!) disappear—and spook up your house for trick or treaters too!

There’s lots to love about Halloween—dressing up the little ones in costumes, trick or treating, finding Kit Kats in the leftover stash....But among our favorite things to do this time of year is making Halloween crafts. Who can resist those pipe cleaners, black felt or googly eyes? Halloween crafts is where it’s at. Add to that the fun of seeing your child’s imagination run wild, and we’re talking about a bewitchingly good time. That’s why we’ve scoured the internet for some of the best Halloween crafts for kids around. Whether your child is prolific with tempera paint or thinks it’s a snack, you’ll find a spook-tacular Halloween craft ideas that’ll have you both under a creative spell.

Cool Halloween Crafts for Kids

If your child has mastered scissors, markers and mixing spoons, they’ve got the skills to conjure up a big fat cauldron of ghoulish things. From spine-tingling decorations to clever scary-smart classroom gifts, these fun Halloween craft ideas bring out the spirit of the season.

How to make it: Wind yarn around the back of a chair (this will make sense once you see the images on the blog), tie it off and cut it into the shape of creepy critters or a pumpkin. Attach to a piece of twine and start decking the halls.

Halloween Spider Slime

Halloween crafts for kids don’t have to be just about paper and glue. Why not brew up some spider-specked gooeyness too? Lucky you, the folks at The TipToe Fairy have masterminded a super- simple potion.

How to make it: Fold sheet in half and cut into strips. Punch a hole at both ends (click on the blog post to see exactly how this is done). Thread the strips through the pipe cleaner and top off with a leaf.

How to make it: Cut out a paper branch from brown paper, and a half moon out of a standard cupcake liner. Glue to a black sheet of paper, then create your owl, making it look as eerie or as friendly as you like.

How it works: Cut away the bag seams; fold and create holes, just like as you would to make paper snowflakes (see blog post for helpful hints). Then hang around your house. Add fake spiders, if you like, for ghoulish good measure.

How to make it: Accordion fold paper, and cut rectangles out of one side. Repeat on another sheet of paper, then glue them together as explained in the post. Add twine and toy spiders if you like, then hang them liberally around the house.

How to make it: Use the first three ingredients to create dough according to the included recipe, roll it out to about a 1-centimeter thick, and cut into the shape of a pumpkin and stem. Have your kiddo press his or her hand—not too hard—into the dough. Use a drinking glass to gently twist out a hole in the palm of the print. Bake in the oven at 160°F for 3 hours. Once out, leave overnight to dry out more. The next day, paint, let dry, and add your photo.

How to make it: Create a face on your plate with the big, ol’ googly eyes and black marker. Next, punch holes around the perimeter of the plate, each being about a half-inch apart—then start lacing! Go up and through and across in every which way until your mummy is all bandaged up!

Fuzzy-wuzzy Was a Spider

While spiders are supposed to be scary at Halloween, they can sometimes be cute and cuddly. Case in point: These not-so creepy-crawlies from My Home Based Life.

What you need:Large and small wooden craft sticks in assorted colors, small and large googly eyes, medium and large black pompoms, hot-glue gunHow to make it: Dot glue in the center of a green stick and press another green stick on top, making a very wide X. Repeat three more times, turning the sticks slightly so that the four sticks look like eight legs coming out from the center. (Repeat with different-colored sticks so that you have multiple spiders.) Glue large pompoms on the large sticks and medium pompoms on the smaller sticks. Finish off with the googly eyes.

Easy Halloween Crafts for Toddlers

These Halloween craft ideas are such a cinch to pull off, even a toddler can do them with a just wee bit help from Mom or Dad. Older kids may want to pull these off by themselves but because of small pieces (drat, those googly eyes!) it’s always good to ask.

Craft Stick Halloween Puppets

Let your little gremlins’ imaginations run wild as they tackle this puppet craft from Creative Family Fun. With a bundle of sticks, they’ll spend a good part of the afternoon creating gaggles of creepy-cute puppets and then putting on a show.

Mummy Fruit

OMG. So simple. So hilarious. Dress up the residence of your fruit bowl this Halloween with the help of a little gauze, a little tape, and a lot of fun. (Meaghan from The Decorated Cookie, you slayed it with this idea.)

What you need: Fruit, like a banana, apple, and orange; roll of gauze; Scotch tape, self-adhesive googly eyes

How to make it: Wrap gauze around fruit, securing withsmall bits of tape. Stick googly eyes to the gauze. And, well, that’s it!

Homemade Haunted House

Peek a BOO, indeed! This is super-fun take on a flip-the-flap craft from Sarah Jane can be put on repeat: Open and shut the windows and doors over and over again to the delight of your giggly little goblins.

How to make it: Use the house template and black paper to create a haunted house. Cut out the windows and doors with the craft knife, leaving a “hinge” so that they’ll flip open. Glue the yellow paper to the backside of the black; then glue both onto the blue paper. Open the windows and doors so your kiddo can add spooky characters with crayons and markers to peek out.

Spirit Jugs

Here’s one way to get your kids to drink milk: Show them the bright fab Halloween lantern they can make once the jug is empty. Make one or make a bunch to light up your porch or walkway for candy-seekers. (Thanks to Jodie and Jen of Eighteen25 for inspo!)

Dryer Vent Pumpkins

These pumpkins (courtesy of Jessi at Practically Functional) never ever rot and they’re pretty fun to make. Hit the hardware store for a few supplies and you’ll have these decorations for years to come.

How to make it: Cut a piece of dryer vent (at least 2 feet long) and hot-glue the ends together to make a circle. Slide a dowel through a cardboard box and set the pumpkin on the other end so you can paint every bit of your pumpkin. When it dries, adhere a stick onto the center, call it a stem, and you are good to go.

Tissue Box Monster

Stop tossing your empty tissue boxes in the recycling bin. Instead, get crafty with the kids to create a silly-not-spooky monster family, just like Mariah did at Giggles Galore. You can leave them as is, or stuff ’em with Halloween candy.

How to make them: Paint and decorate your tissue box as you like. Cut out jagged teeth on either white paper or craft foam and glue the flat side just inside of the box opening. Cut egg-carton eyes (use one, two, three or more); secure googlies to them, and glue on the top of the box.

How to do it: First, paint the embroidery hoop black. Once dry, stretch the cobweb over the inner hoop, then snap the outer hoop into place. Trim the excess web and hot- glue spiders to the hoop. Wiggle the rest of the spiders into the web—no glue required. Add a ribbon (Orange? Black? Shocking green? Up to you!) to the top to hang your creepy creation.

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Halloween Mummy Jar

Cast a spooky light on Halloween night with these mummy jars featured on the Creative Ramblings blog. It’s great for little monsters on the go. Only two steps and it’s a wrap!

What you need: gauze, jar, googly eyes (and a few other household items)

How it works: Just drape your jar in gauze and add on googly eyes. (Check out the blog for details and—bonus!—how parents can help make it glow.)

Beaded Pumpkin Pipe Cleaner

A simple pipe cleaner craft gets a Halloween makeover over at Creative Child with beads. They’re a perfect choice for older toddlers who love to decorate and play with them (and won’t put one in their mouth).

What you need: orange and green pipe cleaners, orange and green pony beads, scissorsHow to make it: Shape your pipe cleaners then string on matching beads to create a fun, flexible bracelet.

Edible Eyeballs

For incredible edible Halloween craft ideas for toddlers check out Fun at Home with Kids’s project that’s bound to make them roar with laughter. This is one instance in which it’s a-okay for kids to stick their fingers in the eye!

Halloween Hand Soap

Here’s a Halloween project from Little Bins for Little Hands that’s not only easy and fun—it’s also an ingenious way to get kids excited about hand-washing, especially before devouring those Halloween treats.

What you need: hand wash or sanitizer, small plastic halloween items like these or these

How to make it: Collect your favorite Halloween items and have your tot plop them into the bottle.

Haunted Halloween Hands

For Halloween crafts that double as cool science experiments, let your toddler create a freaky phantom hands with objects of different shapes, colors and sizes. The best part? Making it vanish! The folks at Happy Hooligans show them how.

What you need:surgical gloves, twist ties, small plastic Halloween items like these and these, food coloring, water, salt, spoons, a shallow plastic container

How to make them: Place plastic pieces into the gloves, add water and food coloring, seal, then freeze. Take them out when solid, marvel at them, then sprinkle with salt and watch them disappear!

How to make them: Cut out a felt hat, and have your little ones attach it to the light along with eyes and mouth and (if they want to) other embellishments. Add a ribbon to hang and you’re ready to light the way for trick or treaters.

Yarn Pumpkins

Grow a pumpkin patch of your very own with these charming Halloween crafts for toddlers from Design Improvised. The easy to follow instructions makes this project the perfect pick for kids of all ages.

What you need: orange yarn, green pipe cleaners, twine, scissors

How to make it: Wrap yarn around fingers and tie off into a ball of yarn (check out the site for helpful pictures), add a pipe cleaner and attach to a strand of twine to make a garland or display your mini patch around the house.

Witch’s Potion

How to make it: Set out the materials and allow your witches and wizards (and potential scientists!) to brew up their own potions. They’ll have fun watching them bubble up, while also learning what happens when different ingredients are mixed together.